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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 140, 6 November 1914, Page 4

Nearly h hundred years a:»o a British Admiral forced the Dardanelles ami took thi' Sea of AKnnorii to v.m.staat'mopie. iiut the cuU'i'prUc was a hazardous oho even at that period and probably the strait ia impregnable in these davs of - : " ' ' tilhry. The strai is about forty-seven miles long, and from two to four miles wide. The naviwible c.hiMjiK'l is not more than a few "'hundred yards wide at »"■"" •—'■-* ' - is flunked by strong the Turku have mounted larjre tjim ■■■. The waterway is .protected,' too' bv mines controlled electrically from til'shore, and it ran he lit np'b" pou-eriul searchlights at night. The Turks have had German assistance in strength,.,, i !: <- tlie. defences of the vDnrdanellos dunn'' recent months, and it is not likely tlw.'l tin; An;,'lo-French forces in the 'Mediterranean will attenmi, to force the passage before the shore batteries have been reduced by land operations. The mo>,t powerful armored ship would be courting disaster ,r it entered Hie. strait in defiance of the Turks under nresent conditions.

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